American History
Stephen G. Hyslop |
Published: August 05, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Buffalo Bill Cody heralded the closing of the frontier by reassuring Americans that they would never be too civilized to beat the braves and bullies of the world at their own game.
Jill Norgren |
Published: May 01, 2008 at 10:25 am
Belva Lockwood was the first woman to become a candidate for the American presidency. Her 1884 campaign stimulated media attention and social controversy.
Published: March 17, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Preview of HBO's John Adams miniseries based on the book by David McCullough.
Published: February 08, 2008 at 7:19 pm
The well-known photograph of Mary Todd Lincoln with her husband's 'ghost' behind her was only one of many hoaxes perpetuated by photographer William Mumler.
Charity Vogel |
Published: November 30, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Nearly 50 people died and many more injured in the 1867 train wreck known as the Angola Horror. John D. Rockefeller narrowly missed being one of them.
Yanek Mieczkowski |
Published: November 30, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Gerald Ford withstood a challenge by Ronald Reagan within his own party and nearly pulled off a miraculous comeback against Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential election.
Joshua Ruff |
Published: October 04, 2007 at 10:17 am
Levittown, Long Island, became the most famous American postwar suburban development. A household name, it was “Exhibit A” of suburbia.
James B. Daniels |
Published: July 30, 2007 at 11:33 am
Winfield Scott's unlikely victory on the Canadian side of the Niagara River during the War of 1812 helped transform the motley U.S. Army into a professional fighting force.
Chris Chandler |
Published: June 05, 2007 at 11:08 am
Coverage of the horrendous 1937 Ohio Valley floods by Louisville radio station WHAS was a seminal event in broadcasting history and established the modern tradition for reporting disasters.
Published: April 03, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Supplement to the 'Prerogative or Power Play?' article from the June 2007 American History magazine providing links to other presidential signing statement articles.
Nick D'Alto |
Published: April 02, 2007 at 9:52 am
Exclusive interview with Dr. William Kelso, chief archaeologist for the Jamestown Rediscovery Project, concerning the significance of Jamestown, Virginia, in the history of America.
Mike Coppock |
Published: February 13, 2007 at 2:08 pm
The Woodward tornado of April 9, 1947, the deadliest ever to hit Oklahoma, left 185 dead, more than 1,000 injured and a mystery that remains unsolved 60 years later.
Steven Lee Carson |
Published: January 05, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Long before the Kennedys, another patrician Massachusetts clan, John and Abigail Adams and their descendants, scaled the heights of triumph and plumbed the depths of tragedy in full public view.
Christine M. Kreiser |
Published: October 27, 2006 at 3:03 pm
In the midst of an unprecedented public health crisis, can a government protect the welfare of its citizens at home while rushing millions of troops to battlefields half a world away? In 1918 America faced just such a challenge.
Christopher G. Marquis |
Published: September 05, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Long before his rise to national fame during the War of 1812, young Andrew Jackson, as lawyer, judge and legislator, helped shape the American frontier. He took the skills, attitudes and quirks developed there all the way to the White House.
Louis Kraft |
Published: September 01, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Although he was already a popular figure in his own time, the disaster that doomed George Armstrong Custer on the Little Bighorn forever secured his place in the American mind and mythology.
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